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I'dMLUC >ar1 as mo- 3 of sard the r'ithrom, kins e to] 3 A.' the Both sing were "Ku night wftejfe imp "rial wizard rhom^gKJH?ll*.on spoke. Ham? Country Needs Int< i 'Red' Assailing, A L r^V^R, Colo. ? America J ?ra*ion of all its racial compori ing f ' W"'^ gf% m-% ' Conf rence of l^AACP. the City ofr Englewood has finally | - canceled its ban on Mrs. Mary I MdLeod Bsthune and is making I ^. the facilities of its junior high ^school 'auditorium available -for . an addbss by the distinguished Flor'-'T educator. Willow .T. Fitrpatrick. presi.1 <fsnt ? the board of education, f said this week that objections ? tp Mrt;. Bethun's appearance1 | ; had b<&en withdrawn after she! fc* wrote a letter denying membership in "subv-rsive" organizations. f Father, Daughter | __Perish In Blaze zx* ' T 1 3 F On James Island jT T CHARLESTON ? In the midst * of commencement exercises on James Island last week, stark tragedy struck in the commtlnity and took thelife of a father and % ws two year old daughter and ' sent two others to Roper hosIjjr pite* suffering from hysteria.. Dead-irr a fire-whrch destroy ed their home on the Gramball Ford were Harold Smalls, 29, ' 7 and his two year old daughter, ' Shirley. Mrs. Mary Smalls, the wife and mother. *na her sister L Mrs. Genevieve Lemon, neither ii ?< h&m was at home at the Stime, were rushed to Roper hosf^ital at Charleston in a hysterl* cal condition, treated and dis: misatd. The victims had been unable to escape the home. ^ County authorities reason thetMr. Smalls had inadvertently ^ dropped off to sleep while smdkI ing in bed. The little girl wot " also believed sleeping at the yfc. time. ' ^ f r i i 11. p~m r ^* " 11 LADIES! LADIES LADIES! ? < , Hurry and nntar nnr JBlgjyacaion-Scholarship contest. Read AMP advertisement on page two Jpjthis edition and write for details. There'll be m*hy prises and everybody is a wlnnaf. Scores of ladies grill enter- this contest. Be r the contestant from your homer town. Hurry I Just a short time left to enter. . lace For School t-'T . ; ' ux Klan Warns ilton assailed Negroes and minority groups, tha Frj Council of Churches In- Ch America, and said that all i Hitler was trying to do ii many, was to maintain supremacy?the program kl'an. Both I^awkins and M are farmers. Mr. Wbste rans a small country ston ters tp the pair w^re r: Saturday, postmarked at tanburg and in a plain en' Each said in part: "If you ai<>? sine:rely in ed in bur schools wo beli?\ you will voluntarily wit your name from this race. "Vast improvem nts hav made in the color-.d sohc the past year, and w? 1 ,w? v r: ( ontinue withou offer. "Wc tru-t th:i*. u ha1 ability -trr 4his t "Ku Klux K sgration And L< loultrie Dcclai Assailing present gov ri al attacks on the Commur thi> count . . Mr. Moultri "America is spending tho of dollars to compr s? Coi ism and in the sam? veil playing our own dem cheap. Guilt by association rod by which this suppi is guag.vi. Foi> example, it s en talking to a Commur a bystander, immediately assumed that I am a Loi ist, and th'.' bystander so c mr. Why can't our democr strong enough so that th stander would assum. t .'OUld?convert the Commi Urges Race Relations Ch: Continuing, Mr. Mouitrh hails from Charlgxton, went jonLd-'H-ri.ca._is_Aa '.a-n its /ositici of leader; must offer first-class citiz to all of th1-* citizens." H many changes -for good place hut urged # "CompI will retard the birth of the teg ration; < aOs- only b; Cancer tfeaths VUL JL' (U1U1J O Earning rower NEW rQHK ? A new of Cancer's cost is revee an estlmat? that deaths year among fathers and bands results in the los> a half billion dollars. The American Cane r J points out that this flgu plies to only part of the cial toll resulting from deaths of 215,000 Amenc all rac s annually. Dr. I^-nuis I- Dublin. M< litan Lif-> Insurance vice "A^ ar1 suit deaths from cancer of heads of families in 1948 fhclr~Thrp-ndent?. lost a ] and future support wlios value is estimated to b< tiir. nnn nnn > The American Cancer . points out that this figi eludes only & part of th of cancer. The eminent Dr. \Vil twhiii, chairman of the I of Educational Admins and Community Develc Ueorje ~ WaBoflf CoTTSjj Teiehers, Nashville, Ten formerly the superintend Pasadena (Cal.) public i will be tho commencement er at Talladega College June 2. The baccakntreate on June 1 will he delive P esldent A. D. Beittel of defa. ,ji... _ ? ? ' -TIT other iternal irUt of MJ \dolph J -l Gerftwhite of the Webster ,~ r ?l\? -VOLUME 15, NUMBE1 ?. Let- : ceived X ROVING teres!-1 A B O U 1 | CAR' LIN/ b?cn! By JOHN II. McCRAY, Fditoi >ols in J The lighthouse and Inform) o?li.eve i , our' OUR FIRST Mosquito bite tb i year: Watching Lamar Dawkir i and his crew of workmen woi y-> the: w . J at _ x>n a pa'.io at his place i -quont. ^?? r??j-? ? Orang1 -burg eariv Monday iv i .IU11 " ~ inc. The bite? It was a whoppe * * *SS " WALKER'S Chapel Section i G_org_town county; L.ade " : e are sad over the illness ar hospitalization of O. -K. Porch rmicnt-,-(<at Veterans Jfospita'1 in Co lists in"T\imbia). They say he was the ki _ s.ai 1. man in both the Progressn usands Democrats and NAACP in *tl nniun- county. Funny how folk give yc l it is so little support and such adiai ocracy way to go and then turn arour is the and praise you. to Ilea v. n wht -wssion you've worn yourself out f< I am them. list by * * it is KINGSTREE: Hit town a f. nmua. minut-.s after a fiatal auto-b iccuses truck collision on the Lak? Cil acy. b highway Monday night. Dead w; is by- a Mrs. Jenkins. Mr. Jenkins 01 iiat I ly oth?r person in the Jenkir inls" / t-a-i-, s rionsiy injured. Amid tit inge crowd which had gathered at tl ?, who hell.y hospital was one woina S. C. w^? sh-d tears unasham-dl; maitir ^ ems that shehad just seen., tl ship it victim, who with her. husban unship a,ji run in'? town for a brief vis [o aaw before t/ic truck smashed he taking int0 Eternity. "You'-never agency on^ ^ut that, 4.h?,other one wi wprld lWr ealso." They were an irtse y into- parable pair," KINGSTREE, P. S.: Stopp by to hail th? Lilliewoods b house was dark and the Old mobile wasn't home. Just as \ pulled away a woman's voi ! called our nam'?.in a passing c* osDC-t j turned and followed the e il d in ?G whtre y-,ac| stopped dov in * 1* j th'-' str.et to inquir?' who w I hus-| so recognize us a'"j that hour. The voice r . plied: "I' Rev. (W. J.) Robinson's ?daug Society ter wi. ;jVe next door to yo re ap- p]ant. I'm working her?. T< nnan-| ^a^dy and mama I might > cancer them this wj?k en>j/. nns of * MARION: A nice audi.nee w etropo- on hand Sunday afternoon I -presl- me tint; on voting ?nc* r.g of the' Nation, held in St. John A\ male church, pastorcd by the vc alone, ,ahi^t affable and tireless Dr. pres:nt ^F-._Cr. Bentr On the program w e total Rev. S. W. Fordham of Eben z - over, /YjvtE Church at Mullins, w confessed that he was so thn Society I ccj over the address U. S. Jud ire in-[ (petirtd) J. Wa'.i':s Wnring~7nn c co<ts to .^/legates at the general AN , conference two W'eks a;j Chicago that he forgot to ma I report on major other doings his membership. "I just talk abut M.r. Waring," he said. * DARLINGTON. An old squ; ble of some two year standi ostween the local and state Jea eWhip nf Pro^rssive D:mocr, has been resolved now and be sides agree it was all ov' r a m I 1 understanding. Both were woi ing on the sam*? thing all alo | 'Yrtd~w6uTd"~have no* heerf at <y nad they a*, th- ouset tried I get together as they did Sund W Now, on June 8, both will lour a big meeting, jointly spdhsoi in Macedonia Baptist* Chui lard E. h^rp Darlington, by the way, 1 >ivision don1-' an excellent job on leg dilation tration. , W. J. Hunter U 4 >pmem, j chairman, pushed by such n fC fnrr as Dave Pugh OTirt Prof. Coup n. and Rev. Long. , lent ?f i 6 ; j ichools, AIKEN: A report here on speak- weekend was that undertai (Ala.), and prominent Robert A. Broc sermon SjvSfT ti hospital p&ti'nt .serioi red by ly ill. Bob Brooks used to tea ' Talla at S. C, State College. Prior CONTINUED ON PAGE EIG1 ^ r? he N * I 49 . ' i j ' i ? j )U >. id >n ty j i-i~ in I u H I ;it I I fl w ! Crump 31 21 * ! :i /I,s Makiti \r. ar NEW YORK -.An < \p id nc in ed political observe, a.id room as b.r of the Now York Stat 1 u: al laturc '.old a press conterer.e m last w:l k that the Negro Sou*' lacks p'Mitc. al orjtaii;/. <._> , i. ul ad quato leadership.- hut on t 2 iriU the ehallenn "V.'i'r. e a.id ' eni.v.et am." ( ritici/cs \.\A( !' At the sntve , ?}-. di:i: p. entli-iz <1 t X.V > n;,i A. .a or * 1< >! for !Adv.!', o I ( or (1 I-' o p! e tor d.!; . IE ,,_, .-l.hal vot.nc pi.u i . t:. p.;e ry , to n<>. Ass 'obiyti:.. . He Km 1. < I'UOi] eP-l-th A ;T. 1)7.",""at".; 77 ToTT.Tr1 ho n- "n wtil" j, si;: vey dm inc. wo. h ' with and fo .V ?1') Trw-rrrfj Under th au ;> e ..I th n< A", r. ..... -i c. ..?! .\ . ? - IK 1 " ' ' ' jn N ii:?i [li'iniM rat>, h< vhnt d Vn ^(, jljNorth (.'arohti... S.<w1 h t ?0 iV*>1 iim, "Florida, C c??: t* . M, L?j issipp.. Alabama and l.u.>-un. In hi--, r port ho mado ' h s (i vo <_> t <; :i 11') crv it a ; i <>:: ,K lit icfl 1 fn'V (t Mil,.- 11 t ! I ng lu> 'onvhod 1 Too \'Ot :i-{ haht nun'P.:', N a4S Kin s i- itro'A'iniT, m :;p:tv ??l tinned ;rt in"i nr?"i;i i ! i - t js_ cm I) it.' hut Noproi : |:i tile : *k dioto at*'as of South " shovvmq defiant ' to fcts " ~~ n,c,'rm- -m-Tviu *tTT 't*t t() paying tlu- tux at in at a t _lino in <inlet v ia st ,, t* y. lcj_ ' f-doral lrt'.i..!".d a hi ( l.riiinati: r,,J tll tax will r u!t , i , hop a ch'crcas<" 'n v?thig. 13M| '* Al'.hou^it. uum. -tfu-mn- -m s , uruiruf Ncmrnos to topi hu?rrr , i vot "-, tlv rv is an nInee of ii he 1 ordination amonit tinm lh < . U " <*'" NAACl' 'I" rT' , erodit;d>l job. | 4. Klforts to ( f .it ;i | "| ; i vtruf'.urj have been we.ik a poorly planned. Hut h noted th c r the "ph nonu'ivm" of No' | mass vfi'i,ny in -th S''jith 11.?? ! relatively n \v ind that tl lC" j huildtnu of polit 10M marl .nery tn | niiikc i' IT ( live will t.:1 ' tm *TJ ;in di xperil nee. 4 .. 1 COLUMBIA, SOUTH t\ Progre ;* >. Thrro i.? a short "!' ) oli tii .'i; Iraiir: .-hip iji;t no hortarfe i >!' ifad . inn m;it< i .... < : a a <4 to ji :?<i in. ' 1 : -: a Lit n ;i mv;; :i f?i i:i < ountvy I rtji' ( <>iul-,rlinn Clinics \ < 'r'.n'np :'** ?i:u:r. r'. rd !1 ' : n . (- | n'. A trinms n < ; i.;i't <i .:. " l S uth ; ' ' : ;l.!.I! . ,:' ii! iy?!;t. ? \; : tint; ttrrt Itit* -*w - "{ " lt,:iv iit; '.i ai f;< II. ! .U'! NA.V V - n < ::! .5 * ;,..d" ,: _. ?i ?!:;/ <it , ' < :> it !i -i. it" i?i.?i*. ?'ii ;i t.itia . ; . i i: i -; s. Tn .!?<; ? \j ? <-<i ! ; |. : t. ... p"l. > ? Iv - | on or el i 1 m.* l'nanp . io. I;, i - ' i "an 1 "h t h" (try and, at tho sotn.o '.ini and \\*iI i a ! ; . k mov.el' t ,i. ' i 11>: apmvmy thi. . a - ? : . an daaUdy \\> 1 i ; 1 * I ::.n from ' .? .a . 1.. 1' . . i\ id the , .1:at .i:. <<i jud::.. o. .mm /ait.iii? .> .h.p.- _ Xun.aooi '0 at;./.' < in. )i ni l! it :. al ? ni;iri : aii' fo: m1 ak.t <1 a .<I o\ i : ? il an ! ;1 4 t" Ik'h i a"'";.:lt l,i t,.)Va- i (>i:a *f..: uj p. : t 11 . Kilt-"-.; I h a' ill til Smith white* i'a* ;r!" '.' a! ' . I" .iii ;n ; a. :i? ei t o. a;>11 ,il, 11(fi t !: y I > a N .1(1 \ (l! i . ' -T ( :'.iiii|i'n (i.'i'.in <>! tin* N A T ' ' Al '1' . ana- itt ttT^Tmi?on^T'i|ll '' ' i t 11: : In" rijKirt r ;. 11 <r. rrv. 'I- o.I t d;.' i n an olTi<"in 1 -1 at mo nt the a .x-'i at a. i had >u-4 HnP to \ah~TP a \ . ~<i?r . M' 1' e t. 1 he pi >1(1 11 v I > nun : at' and > Hopublioans ar to lie it.,mdod at a-v. iinnoooptahl 11 hy Noyio s fur t<> vot.iu; pui pos Ho aid a! a) f that '.heir solo t >t has ho n their to sta ;-*!' (>n til "limited i' no" of to orvd rights, and h added: ,t' "I rftliMo4 uml i-?-t:ilc th im( ONTIM I l> ON r.\(;i: I K.Il l I INFORM AKOLINA. SATURDAY, MAY ?j&Jp I , *' 2 AT CONVENTION?Several I A jltmUa * cr Columbians attended the * 27th annual converttlorv of*tl?e South Carolina Funeral directors and Fmbalnaers Association whirlj <uufct at Anderson lust week. Pictured, left to right, a- j hov'e arc: Odeil W. Humphri-s, j assist in( manager, Manigault's j I uneral Honn^ Claude Me- j < olluni. ;^WSnt manager, I aft Says Would > Name Race Man 'I1- H 1 * Hi cx'iTt'iarvsni!) A A. C'LKVKI.AND. O. ? Should S< H. A. 'IVft. < .QP ! : i ' . .. . vi vt. w ? .? . *' ; ! >'f the U :it d S* !v .i:(i ! ni a col<.; t!V:::.:s uiic of th s?vr. ! : . ihv White House./* M:. 'i' ;!:." ; . Mv ? -r ( r tJ :** . * v?" ret *; .! :<: !< v. i : 0:1 o! the ' r>::'k V the .v. . f .| ( ,< >J? >:;:.! t; I 1 <.! K \ 1 The |{t. dev. J. It. Shaw of Salisbury. N. <\ who is one <?f 4uut?j>i i n i?.i cfs elevated to the bishopry ' by the AMK Zion (burch during its quadrennial conference in Itrooklyf*, N. Y. this month. Itishop Shaw is re1.C...I I,. I>; ,11~ on.l * 1 < < in u %<r iv.^iiuiiK imri .iiiii ^ii^. .1 lines W. Shaw of Columbia, and is well known throughout the denomination's southern districts. i ! xoxx ER 31, 1052 ~ w at a4. . w B-? ?: w in g a A, P. WliLuri*, manager, Wll*?oi Hants Funeral Home and pub* g< He relations director fOT the t> association. Absent from ilie group when picture was tak- at en Kirk land Leevy, manager l/'l'.v's Funeral Home. Others from Columbia on hind included, A. Wilson Simkihs, business man, John H. MeCray, eAitor Lighthouse and Informer, Nathaniel N'esbill. A. P. Williams, Mrs. Kirkland Leevy and daughter. ?Iiss Alice Hiller. John Fleming of Charleston, former l:.? S. District Court crier, was also in attendance." entertaining the convention were: C. Lee Davis, Fred W. Jackson,Wilson Ciireton. Mrs. Mary Drown, Walter Johnson, W. I. Peek, Miss Willa Mae I Alexander, F.dward K. Wool- I ridge, and William Jackson. !>t iineltsville SAACP Nears J ['ampaign Goal t BKNNETTSVII.l.E -- T h c ^ ILn e-H.-sville NAAC1' branch ipoit.d 4 iis w k that it need i i ?hiI\- lit 111<>i'o members tt s* reach its mtutu for lt)a2. but oflii I lis : i ! ? 1'licv' f t' f bit nl thr nri of the pr sent campaign, the quota would he fh?d Tlh#?r braiii h" hiT* t> each Third Sun g, ijav. ' B VC?' , Jnr,>: T. K nm'vly- is pre id n' i* uf 111. branch; Harold T. Blark- , man. vice president; Mrs. Lucih e' T. Washington, ecr tr.ry aiv' lif\- s M Miller, tr asui t r. 11 ?<-'lunt mch of?stand ing?com?y mi'tees arc: ' S Mcmlv'iNiiin Afr 1) P Rrie tow; Kin.iiu , 11. K. Covington, s Sr.: Community Coordination. ^ MT" Pi id in i' Mxt-'riihim; Prur.r. ~ and Publirit>, Harold ,T. Blackman: Legal R ?.!res-, Dr. Q. ^ Adams; Education. Rev. S. M. ^ Mil lor; Entertainment, Miss V. " Enters? Cooke; Youth Work, Mrs. W. J. MvMath; Veterans. Ernest Robinson and Church Work, R?v.' ^ A. J Wright. [e -> ?i ' ; PRICE TEN CljTNTS i Doefc* Sarins Judge For J| suspended tine 1>r. Buzzard', but christened ? Cadi son Pell, 58, graciously awed b'fore Recorder John I. ic? here Tuesday for a suspend\ sentence of $15.50 or 15 days \ a charge of disorderly conTh'". complaint said "Doc" .J her out whsn she tried get back the $20 shr? claimed le paid him to make her huaanJ corhj back to her. The ' end1 r "root man" denied, how/er, that he was abusive. "He lid he had given her two dolrs of the money and would ive returned all of it, but ujst dn't have it. Moreover, he argu;d, he had my: what he promised. He made le husband come back home, it she just couldn't hold him.'* Obviously imijnpressed with ItK ~ rftystic?power, Judge Ride ?-3 ant:d to know by what power >uld- the "Doc" help anybody. lyway. At the request of his . 7 p torn.y, the mystic * man fished it what he told the court was dragon's tpQth, which he said " j|9 as is secret, which could very ell start a rush of root busess around hr:re if the word ^ is around. ('Actually, police i !, the thing looked more like , tooth from p human being). >QWfJy Awarded )octorate ie ,at the Ohio State Uaiver&k'" Cojuinljif#. Qhie. Dr. Dewdy received hi* sec- . j uiary education at A1^ryi tkxi wmmm \ DR. ODOM . . . ir ??r ; i / rsity. Columbia, and the bach lor of science degiira fronT ? outh ..Carolina State College in rangeburg, in 1937. Th? mat r of science degree was earn d at Ohio State University i\ )47, and sipce that time he has ->;n employed as instructor an t ad of the Division of Agricu iral Economics at Tu^kegee In M :itu*te. In September, 1949, Dr. Dowdj on a fellowship from the Ge ral Education Board, which w rrfrrr-qnrntly-rencwed?frnd?bu an work toward the Ph.D. dc roc at Ohio State with a mai i agricultural economics an ural sociology with a minor ? '.'-'m ronmics.. 4 Prior to coming to Tuskeg ">, -|| rMitute, Dr. Dowdy was for i ( ';J8 aET a farm 'extension worker <? yW ou'h Carolina. He also serv_n . 8 months in the U.S. Army an ' aw service in Europe durn.j Vorld War II. He is a memb f the American Farm Econn )ic Association, the Southe: T-" Iconomic Association, a 32 <i. rre Meson ?ud a Shriner., . ^ "t ' i VISIT CHARLESTON The Roosevelt MicCrays Jr. and Mrs. Johnnie Lee vis ; d in Charleston last Sunday. .' ?$ -v. " iJi